Ep 412 ｜ DeSantis 2024？ ｜ Q&A
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In this episode, I answer some of the questions you guys sent in! Do you believe in purgatory and limbo? How do you write in your bible? What do you do with your bible notes? Is it important to you to write in the Bible? Does it make you more holy?
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hey guys welcome to relatable welcome to another maternity episode a q&a episode you guys sent me
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cooking dinner or something like that and i will be there telling you what you need to know
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or answering your questions as i am doing today all right here's one question do you believe in
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purgatory and or limbo no i don't protestants don't believe in that we don't tend to believe in that
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um that's a catholic belief but i don't find any biblical biblical support for that idea maybe it's
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in the apocrypha but um no i don't believe in any kind of purgatory or any kind of limbo i think about
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for example the passage that says to live is christ and to die is gain do i want to die and go and be
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with christ or i do i want to live i'm paraphrasing do i want to stay here and continue my ministry for
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christ and continue to live for christ and the immediacy with which he says that he would go
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and be with christ as he died um that that makes me believe that's just one example that makes me
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believe that at least for the believer that that is automatic that that's immediate after um after
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death now for those who are i don't know in the middle i guess the belief goes um that rather than
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go to heaven or hell there is kind of this waiting middle ground middle place but again there's just
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no biblical support for that idea so no i don't believe in purgatory um do i think i don't know
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if i've already answered this on a q a do i think that we could see desantis run for president in 2024
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i think it is a very good possibility that's just my own opinion that is not um that's not you know
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i i don't know for sure i don't have any like insider knowledge i don't know any of his staff no one's
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told me that i don't know of a campaign forming i know a lot of people want him to at the same time
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like i think that we want florida to stay awesome we want a place to move when things go downhill in
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our state and so um he's doing a good job of running florida no matter what the media says he's doing
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a really good job like he's helped keep the economy afloat by not closing everything down and
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his numbers are comparable to uh equally populous states who have had very strict restrictions and
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have shut their businesses down and have hurt their economy and so he's doing a very good job i see why
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people want him to vote or to run for president absolutely i think he'd do a great job now he's got
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executive experience why not but at the same time like if he is doing a good job as the governor of
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florida like we still want that as well i just can't even imagine if if andrew gillum especially
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after everything that came out about him after the election if he had won what a mess florida would be
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right now another question do you write in your bible underline highlight yes i do now i kind of almost
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wish i didn't because i have bad handwriting and i'm not very good at underlining straight um and so
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my bible doesn't always look very good but yeah i don't know how you could not underline in your
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bible it right in your bible i depend on those notes later and that underlining and i think back
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to why i thought it was important but i mean obviously that's not necessary that doesn't make
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you more holy or something if you write in your bible um people have a way of remembering things
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people journal people have sticky notes and things like that but i personally do i write directly in
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my bible underline highlight i don't know if the concern there is that it's like blasphemous in some way
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but no like the word of god is living and active it is not static yes the pages are important but
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that's not like the truth is alive and active it's not only contained in those pages and so it's okay
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i think as far as i can tell biblically to write um to write in your in your bible um what do i think
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about the book uncomfortable conversations with the black man i've not read that book so i can't tell
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you what i think about the book i've watched the interviews though um and i will say emmanuel
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akko is someone who has perpetuated the narrative that for example uh most of the disparities and most
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of the issues that are pointed out um in in particular the black community are linked back to slavery
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and the facts just don't hold up for example he has asserted that fatherlessness um is due to the
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fact that just a few generations ago black people were treated as property and there just hasn't
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been the time or the ability to form the black family and while it is true that just a few
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generations ago black people were treated as property in parts of the country and while it is true that
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even fewer generations ago um that there were jim crow laws that it was separate but equal so-called
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separate but equal in the south and so there's no doubt that there have been injustices that have
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affected black people and the black community but the idea that the disintegration of the black family
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or the 70 fatherlessness rate of uh the black uh in the black community is due to slavery and is due to
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jim crow just doesn't hold up when you actually look at for example uh when you when you look at the
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studies that show uh the rate of fatherlessness uh in the country it doesn't start at the height of jim
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crow it doesn't it doesn't start all the way back uh at the time of slavery actually the divorce or the
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fatherlessness rate among black families was lower in the 1940s and 50s than that of the white family
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that gap didn't start to really grow the fatherlessness rate didn't start to really increase
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in the united states until the 1960s and by the way the white fatherlessness rate also started to
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increase in the 1960s but not as dramatically as the black fatherlessness rate so if that's where we
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start to see the gap like if that's where we see to start to see the huge uptick in fatherlessness
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in in particular in the black community then it doesn't make sense to link that back to slavery or even
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the height of jim crow because if that were the case then fatherlessness would logically have been
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at its highest point when systemic racism and slavery was its most popular but that's not the
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case that's not the case um we actually see that really start in the 1960s what happened in the 1960s
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we had the sexual revolution we also had the beginning of the welfare state and so it doesn't
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make sense if the black fatherlessness rate is higher than it's ever been you can't say that america
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today is as affected uh by slavery as it was in the 1960s that's just obviously not true and so to
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try to blame something like fatherlessness or crime on that when really those things have gotten worse
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only in the past half century not in the half century before that um that just doesn't make a
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whole that doesn't make a whole lot of sense we got to look at the other causes it's not always the
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causes always this unbroken uh thread of the legacy of slavery for every disparity and every problem
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in minority communities that mentality which again is not based on facts and this is something that
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discrimination and disparities by thomas soul talks a lot about that actually causes us to avoid looking
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at what could be causing that problem like what could be causing black fatherlessness that leads to
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other problems when we just say well it's slavery when we just say well it's just it's just systemic
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racism and then we don't actually look at the timeline and look at the facts that could cause us
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to miss what the real source of the problem could be and it it inhibits us from actually being able to find
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effective solutions to that if that makes sense and so i think that you know i've watched all the
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interviews i think that they're i think that he is well-intentioned i think that he probably has a very
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good heart um i think that you know he's trying to bring people together i think that he perpetuates
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those some of the same false narratives that we see from you know any critical race theorist and i don't
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think he necessarily means to i don't think he wants to i certainly don't think he's some kind of bad
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person or anything like that but i think that he perpetuates some false narratives that again
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lead people to avoid seeking out real solutions to real problems i highly recommend thomas soul's
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discrimination and disparities i highly recommend his quest for cosmic justice which talk about some
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of the things that we just talked about about when the fatherlessness rate uh actually started to
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go up and why it has continued to increase recently even as civil rights have advanced even as there have
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been programs and laws put in place specifically for the elevation of minority communities and so i think
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it's important for us to make sure that we are deciphering everything that we're being told and
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okay next question which office character do you most identify with and why tough question tough question
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because i feel like jim doesn't start taking something seriously like he doesn't start taking his
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work seriously until he starts a company and starts a job that he really likes and he's really passionate about
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he is kind of like apathetic before then and i think that i could be that way too
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it's actually really hard for me to focus on things that i don't want to focus on just for the sake of focusing
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and for the sake of like working on something i actually think that's an amazing character
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who they just work hard for the sake of working hard they complete a task well for the sake of completing the task
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well i think that's an amazing quality in people and it's a sign of immaturity when people can't do that
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i would say that has characterized me in my life that until i started doing this
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and doing what i really love and feel like i'm good at it was very hard for me to focus and to actually
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care about the work that i was doing just for the sake of working hard and for the sake of caring
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um and so maybe i relate to jim most like in that way also
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like i roll my eyes too at what people say a lot if i had a camera and could like break the fourth wall
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of my life i know that logic doesn't really work and like react to things that people say which is
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basically what i do on this podcast then i would probably do that i guess that he's the person that i
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most relate to i'm trying to think is there anyone who sits back and is just like what the heck is going
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on no probably probably not um yeah so he's probably the one that i most relate to he's not
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my favorite character my favorite character everyone brings something unique to the table but michael is
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honestly my favorite character i know that's not like super original but it just is um or he just is
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he's just my favorite character um people i got a lot of questions about what's my favorite movie
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my favorite movie um i really like sad movies my husband makes fun of me and he's like whenever i
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pick a movie he's like you're gonna pick some like tragic movie from the 1980s that's three hours long
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and i'm like yeah i will i don't see anything wrong with that i do like sad movies like meet joe black
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that's not from the 80s i love meet joe black with anthony hopkins first of all one of my favorite actors
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and brad pitt i don't remember the woman's name but that's a great movie the notebook i don't think
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the notebook is overrated at all i don't know if i've already answered this question on a q a episode
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that's the problem with doing all these q a's is that i forget which questions i've already answered
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but the notebook is not overrated in the slightest it is like exactly rated perfectly it's popular because
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it's an awesome movie and i love sad movies and the notebook is one of the best sad movies in the world
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um gosh but i like i really like 80s and 90s movies um those are always like my go-to um if i'm picking
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like a movie on netflix 80s and 90s just one of my favorite eras but it's hard for me to say like
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what my favorite movie actually is um because i really do like movies like my family we're kind of
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like movie people my dad has always been someone who likes to go to the movies and like to watch new
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movies whether they're you know blockbusters or not um and so my family or we're just kind of movie
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people my husband's family isn't really and so we don't like watch a whole lot of movies but i do i do
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like them i just don't watch them as much as i used to so i'm having a hard time thinking about
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like what my actual favorite movie is um let's see next question favorite vacation spot um i might
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have answered this one too i again these favorite questions are really hard i like the beach i would
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if i could pick a place to go on a vacation right now it would be hawaii i went to hawaii once when i
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was in middle school and i really loved it i went to kawaii i would go back there that's probably
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where i would choose to go if i could choose to be at a vacation spot right now all right next
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question what are you praying for in regards to our country and world right now so i always pray
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almost every day every time that i think about it i pray for our nation's leaders i pray that the
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lord would give them wisdom i pray that the lord to give them compassion would give them discernment
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to care about our country to care about what's going on and to to make the right decisions and
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i know you might be thinking well of course like our president and our politicians care about the
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country i don't have that much optimism i don't really believe that i believe that most bureaucrats
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are very self-serving and i actually do think that there is a faction of in particular the democratic
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party who is interested in the demise of the united states as an ideological priority because
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they see as obama did america as this imperialistic harmful force throughout the world and they think
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that weakening america is a moral position is a good position to take and that will actually be
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better for the world they're wrong on that a weak america means a strong china the most totalitarian
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dictatorial dictatorial dangerous racist uh cruel uh regime that exists um and so they're wrong on that
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but i do think that there's a portion of the ideological left who has a vested interest in the
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weakening and the division of america and they see that as a moral position and so i pray for those
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people i pray for changed hearts man i pray for people to change their minds i pray for people
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who have some kind of allegiance to moral and logical truth and i pray that biden would make
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good decisions for our country that even democrats in congress would make good decisions for our country
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that people would be willing to stand strong and be bold i love america i i love our country i don't
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want to see us to see us crumble although it does seem like at the rate we're going it's just
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unsustainable it's unsus it's unsustainable the kinds of divisions that we have and so i don't pray for
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just kind of like superficial unity but i do pray for the welfare of our country and i don't think that we
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deserve god's mercy certainly i don't think that we deserve god's favor certainly we just we
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absolutely 100 deserve judgment and you know john mcarthur has made the argument that we already
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are under judgment and that it's too late for our country to repent we have given in too much to
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degeneracy we've entered too far into the post-truth era that we are receiving and will continue to
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receive judgment that is something that he said that may be true i also believe though that we have
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been put in the here and the now for a reason and that christians have always worked for the welfare
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of the people around them personally through our personal lives and our personal charity our personal
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volunteering and surface service efforts but also politically and choosing legislation and
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representatives um that uh help the people around us and allow freedom to flourish and so um
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and so yeah i hope that kind of answers answers your question uh let's see a lot of people ask me what
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i think about the series the chosen i haven't watched it so i don't know um someone said no question
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just want to say that your book was fantastic and i've recommended it to friends thank you so much
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i really appreciate that a lot my book is you're not enough and that's okay escaping the toxic culture of
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self-love it came out last august if you haven't read it you can get it anywhere that you get books
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you can go to allybethstucky.com book and i think the description or the link is actually in the
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description to this podcast so you can just click on it if you don't want to support amazon that's okay
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there are other places that you can get the book um this is a very sweet question is critical
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thinking always been a gift of yours or have certain people helped cultivate it um i don't know that it's
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necessarily a gift of mine that i have that i have any more than any other person has i think that
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the gift that god has given me and there are a lot of i hate even saying that because people are
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i don't want it to sound like at all i am being in any way braggadocious or self-glorifying or not
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but i think that and c.s lewis makes this argument like if we are totally confident in christ and we're
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confident in god and in giving him the glory for the things that we have then we can very openly talk
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about our gifts as openly as we talk about our uh our weaknesses knowing that our gifts are not
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something that we can take credit for but that are given to us by god so when i say that i am not
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trying to self-elevate myself in any way and there are people that you know probably hate this podcast
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who are like oh that's not true of you at all you have no talents you bring nothing to the table
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um and that's okay too but i think that the gift that god has given me is maybe not necessarily
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critically thinking although i do think that's the inability that i have i think it's an ability that
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everyone has not everyone has been taught how to do it not everyone does it because a lot of people
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have allowed their minds to be atrophied by constant scrolling on social media and they never read a
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book and they never write and their teachers never taught them how to do these things especially kids
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who are young today and they're not challenged in any way but i think that everyone most people have
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the capacity to be able to think critically but i do think that the gift that i have other people have
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other gifts that i don't have but i think one gift that i have is the ability to articulate
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um thoughts to articulate analysis i have always really liked analysis my favorite um you know my
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favorite courses were always english were always literature i didn't even really like history but
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anything that involved writing a paper anything that involved you know analyzing symbolism or
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analyzing content and then drawing meaning from that and then applying it in a way that is interesting
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or thought-provoking that is what i have always loved i love analyzing i love thinking i love drawing
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meaning out of things i love the bible i love uh thinking biblically or thinking about the world through the lens
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of scripture and i will say i've always loved that and that is something that i think god has given me
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like that love and that passion and the ability to then communicate thoughts in a way that for most
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people not everyone is clear and compelling um i also like in second grade for example i think i've
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probably told this story before i went to a christian school growing up and in second grade everyone got
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um you know awards like character awards at the end of the year and so it's a christian school most
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people get like oh you're a faithful friend or you're joyful or even like you're organized and i
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remember the award that i got i still have the little trophy was persuasive and i remember as an
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eight-year-old like being offended by that award because i knew that it wasn't necessarily like a cat
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it wasn't like this universally positive term necessarily the way that you know like joyful
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or generous is and i just remember my um teacher telling me yeah you're persuasive that means you
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would make a really good attorney and i cried to my mom at home because i was like i don't want to be
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an attorney and but actually today sometimes i do want to be an attorney and sometimes i do think about
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going into that but then i remember i have to go to three years of school and take tests and study
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and i hate homework so i don't want to do that but um i do think that god has given me a desire
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and an ability which can always be honed can always be improved and there will always be people that you
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know have this gift you know more than i do and i'm fine with that but i do think an ability that
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he has given me is the ability to communicate critical thinking and communicate messages and to
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persuade people to agree with me um and so i'm thankful for that and that's why i have a podcast
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i don't know what i would do with my life if i weren't communicating in some way that i know that
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i was born to do that i know god has called me to do from the time that i was little i've known
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that i wanted to do something like this and i've never swayed from that conviction i also think that
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my parents did a really good job of cultivating that in me um my mom and my grandmother i've talked
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about this before we're both teachers for several years my grandmother was a teacher for decades my
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grandmother lived with us until i was 13 and we were very close and both of them did a really good job
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in teaching me and in cultivating kind of the natural strengths that i already had
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really bad at math i'm really bad at science i really don't like any of that stuff but i love to
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write i love to read i love to think i love to talk i love to argue and i love to persuade i love to
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convince i love to you know i i love to do anything that has to do with you know rhetoric and communication
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and things like that and my mom and grandmother both my grandmother has died but are both really good
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at that kind of thing and they taught me to read from a very young age they cultivated a love of
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reading in me from a very young age a love of words i've always loved words um and a love of
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memorization my mom helped me memorize at a very young age which i think has literally been probably
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one of the biggest helps in in my life people ask me all the time how do you like know where to go in
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the bible i'll be talking in a podcast and i'll like reference the book of james or something like
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that and i'll reference a passage that i thought about as i was talking about something else well
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one i mean i was raised in the church i went to a christian school all of that helped but my mom
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when i was 18 months old had me memorizing stuff memorizing books memorizing the alphabet memorizing
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all kinds of different names constantly singing with me singing to me teaching me jingles
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teaching me rhymes teaching me different sayings and things like that and so my mom and grandmother
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were just both dedicated to my education before i started going to school and i really think like
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those just even like first few years of my life the videos that i see of my mom like teaching me stuff
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and me repeating the things that i heard or being able to like before i was two you know tell you
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what the what every letter stands for and the words that start with that letter that doesn't have
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anything to do with me it has to do with a mom and a grandmother and parents who are dedicated
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to helping me learn in that way parents have such a huge impact like in those first few years on your
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child's ability to think on your child's ability to articulate and if there's anything i encourage
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young people today to do is to make sure you can build a solid argument make sure you can write a
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solid paper make sure you know your grammar make sure that you can speak well make sure that you can
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think reasonably make sure that you can actually argue in a way that's not just emotional most people
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today coming out of college from what i can tell cannot do those things they can't and i promise you
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will continue to stand out like if we as a 29 year old if i am the generation that is like
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employing the the kids that are in like high school now like once they are adults then i promise you i
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at least and i think other people my age will still care about that kind of stuff like we'll still care
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about your ability to carry on a conversation we'll still care about your ability um to be able to
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write well i will i promise you i will still care about grammar and punctuation i promise you i will
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still care about that kind of stuff i will care about your ability to communicate and the kind of
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people that when i get sent resumes and things like that that stand out to me are the people that can
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speak well the people that can write well the people that are able to articulate themselves well
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and parents of young kids like you can start that now like there's so many resources available for
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parents to just teach their kids to memorize stuff and i'm just astounded every day at the things
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that uh like my daughter is able to retain and then regurgitate that you might think is like oh
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they'll learn that in kindergarten i'm not like some parenting expert i'm not pretending to be because
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as i'm speaking i only have you know i've only had experience raising one child for a couple years and
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so i'm not pretending to know everything but just from my experience as a child and what little
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experience i do have and the friends that i have that are farther along in their parenting
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um parenting years don't wait until kindergarten to educate your kids like don't wait until
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kindergarten to teach your kids the alphabet or to teach your kids how to read or to you know
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teach your kids the the building blocks of memorization and analysis and things like that
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their brains i've realized are so ripe for learning and memorization i really do think that
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that lays such a good foundation for the rest of their lives because if there's one thing that i can
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do well that i that has served me in this job in so many just different like random times that i can
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think of um it's memorization i can memorize anything and i can memorize it really quickly that is not me
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that is my parents and my mom and grandmother in particular i think laying those building blocks when i was
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really young so those early years matter so much moms you matter so much you impact and influence
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your kids so much and the world is crazy trying to diminish the importance of intellect diminish the
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importance of merit diminish the importance of communication critical thinking and argumentation
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and we have to be willing to raise a generation that can do all of those things and that's so
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important also in understanding the bible and reading the bible and sharing the gospel communication
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like i remember i think it was charlie kirk who said something that i thought was interesting that
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christianity we are called to be evangelists we're called to be evangelists we are called to share the
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gospel and to speak and that contrast to other faiths something like buddhism which puts a
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a premium on silence that the most holy thing that you can be is quiet christianity is something
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different i mean god jesus himself is called uh the word made flesh uh the bible also says that the word
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of god will not return void god is all about communication he is all about persuasion like he is all about
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words and uh whether you're like me or not whether you like words or communication or writing or not
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like that is something that god calls christians to that is something that christianity is and so if we
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care about creating young apologists creating young faithful thinking christians that we also have to be
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faithful i think as parents as teachers as sunday school teachers as mentors as counselors whatever
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capacity that you are in that you're influencing the next generation ensuring that they have that
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ability to think critically and to communicate well um that's not a personality type i think everyone is
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able to do it with the right equipment i hope that i answered the question i know that was kind of
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a long way to answer that but um that's all uh that's all i've got for today that's all i've got time for
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thank you guys so much for listening and we'll be back here soon